Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Standard Name: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Birth Name: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher
Married Name: Harriet Elizabeth Stowe
HBS is best known for the highly sentimental and influential anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, although she also authored several other novels, short stories, children's stories, pamphlets, a good deal of journalism, and a biography of Lady Byron (mother of the mathematician and scientist Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace ). Much of her journalism was evangelical in tone. HBS 's reputation peaked with Uncle Tom's Cabin, after which her cultural standing declined.
Black and white, head and shoulders photograph of Harriet Beecher Stowe. She is seated, wearing a dark dress with long, wide sleeves, buttons up the front, and a high, ruffled collar. She holds a pair of small spectacles in her hands and her fair, short, curly hair looks unbrushed.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington
It is a point of debate among scholars whether Blessington saw and used the memoirs of himself which Byron wrote but later burned.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J., Jr Lovell, Princeton University Press, 1969, pp. 3-114.
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Later editions include those of 1893 and 1969 (the former mangles...
Textual Production Sarah Flower Adams
Nearer, My God, to Thee, written when SFA was only twenty-one, has often been misattributed to Harriet Beecher Stowe .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Apparently the hymn was inspired by Adams' friend Robert Browning 's early religious doubts...
Textual Production Clara Balfour
CB published the first edition of Morning Dew Drops, a novel which later also became known as The Juvenile Abstainer, with an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB 's novel was probably also inspired by her role two years earlier as the quadroon Zelinda in Thomas Morton 's The Slave, playing opposite black American actor Ira Aldridge . Braddon had probably...
politics Fredrika Bremer
On 28 August 1854 the London Times printed a long letter from FB urging the women of all Christian nations to form a world alliance against war, social want, and insecurity. On the centenary of...
Family and Intimate relationships Ann Bridge
Marie Louise (Day) Sanders , AB 's mother, was an American from New Orleans, Louisiana (where her English husband met her on a business trip). She died in 1922
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Hoehn, Matthew, editor. Catholic Authors. St Mary’s Abbey, 1952.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Brought up by her black Mammy...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Barrett Browning
During her time in Italy she came into contact with a number of other women who revered her as a successful female artist. She met actress Charlotte Cushman and writer Matilda Hays ; she understood...
Textual Production Elizabeth Barrett Browning
By 1832 she had read Mme de Staël 's novel of the romantic female artist, Corinne, three times and claimed the immortal book ought to be reread annually.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2025, 14 vols. to date.
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She strongly admired the...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Biographers have tended to adopt Robert Browning's scornful skepticism of the spiritualist movement, but it was not a fringe phenomenon. EBB was, historian Alex Owen argues, characteristic of those attracted to spiritualism by its deeply...
Friends, Associates Frances Hodgson Burnett
In Washington FHB quickly made new friends, particularly the journalist Julia Schayer (who soon after they met wrote of her as the Coming Woman).
qtd. in
Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
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Within a few years she made the acquaintance of...
Family and Intimate relationships Augusta Ada Byron
A slightly different picture is painted by Julia Markus in a biographical study entitled Lady Byron and her Daughters, 2015 (which counts Medora Leigh as an adopted daughter). This concentrates on Lady Noel Byron's...
Family and Intimate relationships Mildred Cable
Another child, Little Lonely, was a deaf mute sold by her parents and abandoned by her owner. MC , Evangeline and Francesca took her in, named her Ai-Lien Gai from MC 's Chinese name...
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
During her 1860 sojourn in Italy she declined an invitation to meet George Eliot because the latter was living with a married man. Her friendship with distinguished scientist Mary Somerville blossomed during this trip, and...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Power Cobbe
FPC 's piece makes much use of the pithy formulations and piercing wit that characterize her best prose. It conceives of writing as a powerful form of social intervention: books like Mrs. Stowe 's [...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Power Cobbe
In treating the need for other pursuits for spinsters and widows she touches on the topical subjects of religious sisterhoods, female doctors, higher education for women, female philanthropists such as Maria Rye , and feminist...

Timeline

May 1819, May 1820: These months were scheduled for the removal...

National or international item

May 1819, May 1820

These months were scheduled for the removal of thousands of subsistence farmers and their families from the Highland estates of Lord and Lady Stafford (later the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland ) in the Sutherland...

1852: In the wake of the success of Stowe's Uncle...

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1852

In the wake of the success of Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Richard Hildreth 's retitled novel The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive appeared in an English edition with illustrations by Charles Kean

Spring 1852: Samuel Orchart Beeton (later the husband...

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Spring 1852

Samuel Orchart Beeton (later the husband of Isabella Mary Beeton) began publishing the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, which stimulated the spread of home dressmaking.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
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Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977.
70-1, 75
Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977.
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21 March 1853: The thirty-year-old Matthew Arnold addressed...

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21 March 1853

The thirty-year-old Matthew Arnold addressed to Arthur Hugh Clough a classically misogynist letter about women writers, their works and their looks.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
21 March 2008

April 1853: Stage performer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield,...

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April 1853

Stage performer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield , an ex-slave from Mississippi and the first Black concert singer to win fame in both the US and Britian, arrived in Liverpool.
Sanjek, Russell. American Popular Music and its Business. Oxford University Press, 1988.
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9 November 1857: The first issue appeared of the US magazine...

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9 November 1857

The first issue appeared of the US magazine Atlantic Monthly. It set out to provide articles of an abstract and permanent value, while not ignoring the healthy appetite of the mind for entertainment in...

1861: A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued...

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1861

A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued what seems to be the earliest version of a game called Authors, whose object was to collect sets of cards bearing the names of writers and the...

1864: Famous Girls who have become Illustrious...

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1864

Famous Girls who have become Illustrious Women: Forming Models for Imitation by the Young Women of England, a very popular book of biographical sketches by John M. Darton , was published.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

1868: Mary Abigail Dodge published Woman's Wrongs:...

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1868

Mary Abigail Dodge published Woman's Wrongs: A Counter-Irritant in Boston under the name of Mary Hamilton.
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.

Texts

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin. John P. Jewett, 1853.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Agnes of Sorrento. Ticknor and Fields, 1862.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Dred. Phillips, Sampson, 1856, 2 vols.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, and Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna. “Introduction”. The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth, Dodd, 1845, p. v - vii.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Lady Byron Vindicated. Fields, Osgood, 1870.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Editor Fields, Annie, Houghton, Mifflin, 1898.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, and Charles Edward Stowe. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Houghton Mifflin, 1889.
Balfour, Clara, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Morning Dew Drops; or, The Juvenile Abstainer. W. and F. G. Cash, 1853.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Oldtown Folks. Fields, Osgood, 1869.
Lemon, Mark et al. Slave Life; or, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Webster, 1852.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands. Phillips, Sampson, 1854, 2 vols.
Crowe, Catherine, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Juvenile Uncle Tom’s Cabin. George Routledge, 1853.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. The Minister’s Wooing. Derby and Jackson, 1859.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. The Pearl of Orr’s Island. Ticknor and Fields, 1862.
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth. M. W. Dodd, 1844, 3 vols.
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth. M. W. Dodd, 1845, 2 vols.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. National Era.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. John P. Jewett, 1852.